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By Filipe C (248) on 16 Oct 2016

A great twist on Sarah Waters' modern classic…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Oct 2016

With The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook has made a gigantic leap as an artist, but he retreats to lurid cartoonishness just as he’s earned your trust…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 11 Oct 2016

Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden is a chef-d'oeuvre of intrigue and erotica…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Oct 2016

A bold, beautiful and way-out-there female revenge story that eschews the bloodless nature of most costume dramas to revel in the lusty passions,…

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By Adrian Mack (57) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 10 Oct 2016

Whether this is Park's best film is up for debate, but it could be in the running for your new favourite…

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By Nikki Baughan (240) for The List (2,018) on 09 Oct 2016

The Handmaiden is part romance, part gothic fairy tale and part psychosexual chamber piece, an initially beguiling film whose heavy-handed…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for The Skinny (809) on 09 Oct 2016

A darkly comic study in sex, class and Japanese-Korean relations…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Student Edge (256) on 08 Oct 2016

Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden is for lovers: of others, of South Korean cinema and, most importantly, of psychosexual mind games…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 27 Sep 2016

A complex, tongue-in-cheek tale about a young South Korean woman hired to read pornographic stories to old men…

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By Katie Rife (451) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Sep 2016

Female leads Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri are both standouts, conveying the complexity of the film's multi-layered con games with subtle changes…

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By Britt Hayes (65) for ScreenCrush (954) on 25 Sep 2016

Perhaps the most surprising turn in The Handmaiden is that Park has knowingly subverted his own iconography by delivering one of the most beautifully…

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By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Sep 2016

The love scenes between Sook-hee and Hideko are beautiful, explicit, and funny, displaying a candor about sexuality that's not intended to…

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By Alan Cerny (79) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 22 Sep 2016

The Handmaiden is another masterpiece from Park Chan-wook - a story of love, betrayal, and deceit that is beautiful, funny, romantic, and sexy…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 18 Sep 2016

A unique cherry blossom of a period piece finds its roots intertwined with an erotically-charged crime, set to shock and entrance viewers unaware…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 18 Sep 2016

Park plays fast and loose with expectations, with a shape-shifting plot that's as ornate as the art direction- a mirrored dollhouse of seduction,…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 17 Sep 2016

He's in such supreme command of his craft that to watch 'The Handmaiden' is to watch a man drunk on the joy of movie-making - and to share…

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By Ryan L (1,187) on 13 Sep 2016

Estoy hace una hora borrando y volviendo a escribir este review porque no sé de que manera describir esta pelicula…

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By Matt Goldberg (248) for Collider (1,032) on 12 Sep 2016

The Handmaiden' is thoughtful and complex while also being immensely entertaining, funny, dark, and disturbing.It's the kind of masterful…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for The Verge (432) on 09 Sep 2016

By replacing the class system of Victorian England with the dynamic of the occupier and occupied, Park has tapped into something uniquely complex…

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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 08 Sep 2016

Park goes all-out in series of gratuitous, nearly explicit, sex scenes…

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